{"id":52072,"date":"2020-08-17T14:21:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/anglers-asked-to-stop-fishing-at-noon-daily-on-several-southwest-colorado-rivers\/"},"modified":"2020-08-17T20:21:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:21:59","slug":"anglers-asked-to-stop-fishing-at-noon-daily-on-several-southwest-colorado-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/anglers-asked-to-stop-fishing-at-noon-daily-on-several-southwest-colorado-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglers asked to stop fishing at noon daily on several Southwest Colorado rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=005a76f0-688e-4db5-8b92-2dad52e35eed&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1924\" height=\"1080\" alt=\"Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking anglers to stop fishing on several Southwest Colorado rivers because low flows and warm water temperatures are stressing trout.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking anglers to stop fishing on several Southwest Colorado rivers because low flows and warm water temperatures are stressing trout.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Low flows and warm water temperatures have led Colorado Parks and Wildlife to ask anglers to curtail activity during the heat of the day on several rivers in Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Parks and Wildlife issued a statement Monday that some rivers in the region are reaching more than 70 degrees, a threshold where trout species can become dangerously stressed, sometimes resulting in death, aquatic biologists say.<\/p>\n<p>The Animas River, for instance, hit 69 degrees Monday, running around 170 cubic feet per second. The Animas is typically running about 520 cfs this time of year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/335160\">When temperatures rise past 70 degrees, trout can stop feeding and are more easily at risk of disease.<\/a> Add pressures from fishing, and the situation can become untenable for fish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently, conditions at several rivers in CPW\u2019s Southwest Region that receive a lot of fishing pressure have deteriorated to critical levels for trout survival,\u201d CPW said.<\/p>\n<p>CPW is asking anglers to stop fishing at noon on five rivers:<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">The Animas River through Durango from the Emerson-Parks Bridge (32nd Street) downstream to Rivera Bridge near Home Depot.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">The San Juan River through Pagosa Springs, from the intersection of U.S. Highway 160 and Colorado Highway 84 downstream to the Apache Street Bridge.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">The Conejos River from Platoro Reservoir downstream to Broyles Bridge.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">The Rio Grande from Rio Grande Reservoir downstream to the town of Del Norte.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">The South Fork of the Rio Grande from Big Meadows Reservoir downstream to its confluence with the Rio Grande below the town of South Fork.<\/em>The voluntary closure runs until Sept. 25 or until conditions improve, CPW said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re asking for cooperation from anglers on this voluntary closure to protect our trout resources in these rivers,\u201d said John Alves, a senior aquatic biologist for CPW.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnglers are encouraged to fish high-elevation lakes and streams. But there might be some streams in the high country that also become too warm. We encourage anglers to carry a thermometer to check the water temperature. If it\u2019s 70 degrees or above, please stop fishing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>water, low flows and fishing pressure stress trout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[304,1030,738,885,28,29,3225,295],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-52072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animas-river","tag-environment","tag-environmental-issue","tag-fishing","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-san-juan-river","tag-water"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52072"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=52072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}